Front wheel and yoke for trucks or other vehicles.



No. 659,332. Patented Get. 9, I900.

-.E. WHALLEY.

FRONT WHEEL AND YOKE- FOB TRUCKS OR OTHER VEHICLES. (Application filed Feb. 1 1900. J

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ENOOH WHALLEY, OF WILLIMANSETT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CHARLES H. OURRAN, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

FRONT WHEEL AND YOKE FOR TRUCKS OR OTHER VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,332, dated October 9, 1900.

, Application filed February 1, 1900. Serial No. 3,619. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the floor of the truck. The said wheel and Be it known that I, ENOOH WHALLEY, a its described yoke devices may, when precitizen of the United States of America, residferred, be used as a single front wheel cening at Willimansett, in the county of Hamptrally located under the floor of the truck; but

5 den and State of Massachusetts, have inventin the construction herein'illustrated it is preed new and useful Improvements in Front ferred to employ a pair of said swiveling Wheels and Yokes for Trucks or other Vewheels at the front end of the truck and to hicles,of which the followingisaspecification. provide for conveniently uniting the said This invention relates to improvements in wheel-yokes, so that they shall have corre- IO swiveling front wheels and yokes therefor for sponding swinging movements for directing trucks and similar vehicles, the object being the movement of the truck, each yoke being to provide an improved and simplified conprovided with two arms 8, extending in oppostruction of said wheels and yokes particnsite directions forwardly and rearwardly unlarly applicable to trucks for transporting der the truck, which arms are pivotally con- 15 merchandise and material on the floors of nected by means oftwo separated connectingmanufacturing establishments which provide bars 9, and to said bars, midway between said for turning such trucks within a small radius, yokes, a draw-strap 10 is pivotally connected, as is required for such service; and the inand to theouterend of said draw-strap is convention consists in the peculiar construction nected the usual tongue 12, by which the truck 20 of the wheel-supporting yokes and means for is drawn from place to place.

attaching the same to the floor of the truck The above-described front-wheel-supportand the yokes each to the other and to the ing construction for the truck is one of extongue of the truck, all as hereinafter fully treme simplicity and involves structural parts described, and more particularly pointed out which can be fitted up from common iron cast- 25 in the claim. ings with very slight expense, and for the pur- In the drawings forming part of this specifiposes of transporting merchandise and matecation, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a truck rial from one place to another on the floor of containing a front-wheel and yoke construca man ufactory they provide every requiretion embodying myimprovements. Fig. 2is ment. The rear end of said truck is sup- 30 a plan view of the under side of said truck, ported by any suitably-hung axle 13 and showing the forward trnck-wheels and their wheels 14. connecting devices. Fig. 3 is a perspective. Having thus described my invention, what view of one of the two yokes detached from I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patthe truck and the wheel removed. ent of the United States, is-

5 Referring to the drawings, 2 indicates a Ina truck, a floor, the plates 3, 3, fixed unfloor ofa truck, of any suitable material. To der said floor, each having a central socket the under side of said floor, near one end theretherein, two wheel-supporting yokes 4:, each of, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are secured, having a pivotal projection entering said preferablyby screw-bolts, as shown, two iron sockets, two depending wheel supporting 4o yoke-holding base-plates 3, each havingacenarms 5, 5, and two forwardly and rearwardly tral socket, on each of which is pivotally atextending arms 8, 8, and means in said arms tached a wheel-supporting yoke 4, having a 5, 5, for supporting a wheel for rotation, comcentral pivotal projection entering said socket 'bined with two separated bars 9, 9, each pivand two parallel depending arms 5 5, between otally connected to the extremities of said 45 which a wheel 6 is hung by a bolt 7, passing arms 8, 8, and a suitable draw-strap pivotally through and secured to said arms and through connected to said bars, intermediate of said the hub of said wheel 6. yokes, substantially as described.

It will be understood that the above-de- T T, scribed construction of parts provides a yoke ELOCH IIALLEY' 50 carrying a bearing-wheel of the truck, which Witnesses:

has a suitable swiveling movement in the sup- WM. H. CHAPIN, porting-plate 3 thereof, which is attached to K. I. OLEMONS. 

